This packet is designed to make your guided reading time a breeze. Everything you need to help your kindergarteners become better readers is included. Through using this packet, students will be able to locate informational text features, respond to informational texts, practice connecting to prior knowledge, and locate the main idea and details in a text. I've even included cards and pictures so that you can create anchor charts for your students.

This pack includes ONE non-fiction topic:
-Plants (Life In The Garden)

You have selected one book from a larger packet. Included in this purchase you will receive differentiated lesson plans for a week, activities that go along with the texts, and three levels of the "life in the garden" text. Please note that the books are leveled b, c/d, e/f.

This week's objective: Students will be able to identify the author’s purpose.

Additional objectives include:
-Students will demonstrate their understanding of a text.
-Students will be able to ask questions to think critically and build new schema.
-Students will be able to identify the important ideas from the text.
-Students will be able to make connections.
-Students will be able to support their thinking by using words and ideas from the text.
-Students will write about what they have learned.
-Students will know and use various text features to locate facts and information.